India-administered Kashmir remains tense as anti-India groups call for public march to a local UN office amid 19 straight days of harsh lockdown
An Indian soldier stops the movement of vehicles at a blockade ahead of the planned public march to the local UN office in Srinagar, India-administered Kashmir.
Authorities in the main city of India-administered Kashmir tightened security ahead of Friday prayers after pro-independence groups called for a protest march to a UN office, with streets bristling with paramilitary personnel and some blocked by checkpoints. Posters appeared overnight this week in Srinagar, the Muslim-majority region's main city, calling for a march to the office of the UN Military Observer Group for India and Pakistan , to protest for independence after India's revocation of nominal autonomy that Kashmiris say is aimed to change the region's demography.
The call by resistance groups seeking independence from India and withdrawal of over half a million Indian troops from the region is the first since the decision on August 5 to scrap Article 370, which India followed with a clampdown on communication and movement in disputed Kashmir. Some landlines were restored last week but the curfews and communication blackout remain mostly intact.
The UNMOGIP was set up in 1949 after the first war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, the Himalayan region both countries claim in full but rule in part. The group monitors ceasefire violations along the border between the countries.
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